Posted:21st Nov 2003Thanks to Pele's thread about her sons project I had loads of memories come flooding back from when I read the Flat Stanley book, so I thought I'd see what other lovely memories fellow HOPers have of their childhood.....nothing to heavy folks....keep it feely nicey!!

to start the ball rolling......

Biking up a massive hill when I was 8 and now it seems tiny but still very steep!!Playing footie with my mates every day come rain shine or even the dreaded nighttime!TV - Wak-a-DayFilm - Breakfast ClubFriendship BraceletsMarmalade SarniesAnd Hugs off my Mom

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Posted:26th Oct 2005every story book character i attempted to be causing me to end up in a and e hehehehe biting my brother.dancing in the rain in nearly nothing loldisney (still addicted now like)yucky boyssailor moon

Shhhhhh! the boobies are trying to sleep.owner and the property of noddy.*i was a caterpilla last night * - libby_tuesday

Posted:26th Oct 2005Tv: captain planet and the planeteersbuckie o harerude dog and the dweebsAny one remember jamie and the magic torch?Me and LMSP used to push our beds together and run round and round on top of them, singing the theme to it!

Also I remember flicking alphabet spaghetti around the room,Our toy poodle PepeStealing Mars bars off my brother's dad's fruit n veg van when he'd pick us up from school,Racing the dining room chairs,Pulling down the curtains every morning to play princesses,dressing my brother up like a girlPlaying with the horses with keith n jonny, keith attempting bareback riding and my bro slappin the horse (wee pony actually) and it galloped away with keith holding on for dear lifelooking for tadpoles and johnny bulgies (bulgies pronounced with a hard G not a J - which were cat fish)crawling under the river bridge and getting scabs on our backs as it was so low and we had to bendKicking that roadkill hedgehog and then its jaw fell offMarie saving a shrew from a cat then bringing it inside only to terrorise it and it had a heart attack tying rosehips on either end of a piece of string and throwing it over the telephone cables outside our house - and making itching powder outta them tootying worms around a needleless brown christmas tree that was dumped in the garden Burning plastic bagsmaking mud/ash piesdecorating our den (under the rose bush)going down to play by the river at the swing bridge (not an actual bridge - a piece of rope tied to a tree so u could swing across the river)Playing in the foundations of the new houses when they were being built

general exploring and trespassing forbidden areas

Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible

Posted:26th Oct 2005Another one just came back to me!!! I used to have a cat named Mr Pooh after Winnie the Pooh and I used to dress him up in my dolls clothes and put him in a pram and then take him for walks down the garden, "the poor thing". The worse thing i used to do was put the hose on the slide and then push him down. I was only bout 4. Poor cat must of hated me

Dance like no one is watching, Sing like no one is listening, live your life the way that you see fit

Posted:26th Oct 2005My god this is thread is bringing back so many wonderfull memories.......

I remember going camping with my family when I was about 2 and I couldnt finish my weet-bix so I fed them to a kangaroo that was probly 4 times my size.Being flower girl at two of my sisters weddings (there about 15 years older than me)Mum reading me books like The Faraway Tree and The Magic Wishing Chair.My Pound Puppy stuffed toys and a stuffed toy cat I got when I was 2 days old (still have it but it may of seen better days)My nieces and nephews being born (I was an anuty at the age of 3)Wanting to go to Never Never Land with Peter Pan (still do)

"You dozed, and watched the night revealingThe thousand sordid images Of which your soul was constituted"

Posted:26th Oct 2005My Little Pony - I wasn't allowed one Cabage Patch kids, and Garbage Pail kids (much more fun!)I loved Wilo the Wisp - what a fab creation, with Edna the evil Television and the little fat fairy!My little yellow plastic tractor that got stolen when I left it outside in the garden. I didn't listen to much music, but do remember my folks playing AbbaThe audio tape of Black Beauty - my parents had it on loop on the cassette player. Jim'll Fix itCrackerjack (It's Friday, It;s Five to five, it's......) I hated itPlay School with Floella Benjemin (Let's look through the round window!)Wurzel GummageLook and Read - with Wordy and Dark TowersI remember reading Twinkle magazine, and the Narnia Chronicles. Playing on pogo sticks, and later a wierd ball in the middle of a plastic disk that you stood on and bounced - and got bad blisters on the insides of your feet. Learning to ride a bike without my Dad holding the back of it.Falling off. Eating Jawbreakers and Wham Bars.

This may bring back some memories

Boo x

I intend to live forever - so far, so good.

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and look and read and hvaing to watch it in the assemble hall at first school when it rained at break times,

lion witch and the wadrobe on a sunday afternoon

worzel gummage who my mum still loves and has the dvds

was also a new kids on the block fan that i went to there concert aged 9 and was at front and pulled up onto stage and had them sing to me oh i loved that day

also bros and wham and other 80s bands/ punk era

pouring baby oil on my sisters and my hair when we had a bath and my mum going mad cos our hair still looked wet the next day for school so she put talcom powder in our hair to stop it looking greasy so she could send us to school still

we had a chip van that would come round on a friday night and my nan would send us over for chips

Posted:26th Oct 2005omg pound puppies! i remember them! i had to go into hospital when i was 7 for about 2 weeks and my dad bought me one of them, i have no idea where it is now but they were so cool! and my little pony was great, i had loads, i had one that was supposed to smell like vanilla ice cream but it really didnt.

Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.

Wow what a great thread Someone was searching through the proper bowels of hop threads to find this one and bump it

Yey! I also remember falling off my skateboard going really fast down hill and getting those big bubbly scabs on my arms and knees, then peeling them off and chasing my sister around the house with them

and lion-o,thundercats was wicked! i even had a thundercats duvet and pillow set,although i remember bein really annoyed cos the biggest characters on in were the wiley twins....and i didnt like them very much.....